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Plans for a new body to set and champion a gold standard for teaching are to
be put forward this month. A Royal College of Teaching would accredit the
best teachers and evaluate evidence on good classroom practice.

Charlotte Leslie, a Conservative MP and member of the Commons education
committee, will publish a pamphlet on April 30 in which 10 authors will
discuss the idea, including figures from the Royal College of Surgeons and
the Engineering Council. The new body would be independent of the Government
and teaching unions.

One of Britain’s biggest accountancy firms will no longer consider an applicant’s qualifications, school or university when selecting trainees for interview, in an attempt to increase the diversity of its workforce